It was long and whippy looking, which of course it was, and he walked over to it and picked it up."Take that nightie off, Judy! You won't be needing t...at!"I didn't speak, because I couldn't. I did as I was told, after which he ordered me to bend over the sofa back and put my head way down on the seat. Even though I was fully exposed and terrified, I found myself wet with the realization that he was about to do to me what I had heard him do many times to Mary.I heard the expected swish of the. Red got out, let her in the back seat, and we set out for Alabama.Red gave me directions along the way, taking us through Atlanta, then west towards Talladega. We made good time until we got about fifteen miles from the track and then traffic started building. When we were five miles away, it was bumper-to-bumper, and those last five miles took nearly thirty minutes. We finally pulled into the track parking lot about 9:30am. We put the T-tops back on the car, locked it up, grabbed my bottle of. " Do you know how many employees have never been late in two years?" Melinda asked. She didn't wait for Andy to reply. "You. That's it! You. You've never called in sick. You've never left before your shift ended. You've never been even two seconds late." Even today," the supervisor added with a laugh. "I always dread it when someone gives notice – and not just because I'll have to replace them. I know that the next two weeks will be filled with call-offs or screw-offs. Almost always, they start. It was on such a night (at my house) that Hannah showed up and walked in holding her bag like she lived there and was just back from a trip somewhere. She knew who Phoebe was, of course and, as already stated, Phoebe had seen me out with Hannah before we started dating. Phoebe and I were sitting on opposite sides of the table with stacks of paper between us. Chris happened to be taking a nap at that moment. That’s what we called it when he had to go to bed at my house, and then go home later..